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Will Gingerbread 3.0 be the last update for the Droid X?

By the time we will actually 'need' an update, we will be wanting a newer phone that blows away the DX, just watch.
 
As far as I've read all Gingerbread is really concentrating on is a new UI and better gaming experience. It's not touting a whole lot of stuff that I'm just dying to get so even if we didn't get it I wouldn't chuck my DX into the river. But that said, I'm pretty confident we will get it.
 
binary visions said:
A) "End of Life" doesn't really mean what most people take it to mean. In this context, EOL simply means they expect to have a new flagship phone to sell and they will no longer be pushing the DX as their latest and greatest.
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No. EOL means 'End Of Life.' Releasing a new product is releasing a new product but in the tech world 'End Of Life' means it's no longer planned to be in an active development cycle, no teams are working on it, no more patches (except for CRITICAL security patches that are utter showstoppers) will be committed. 'End Of Life' means that Motorola is no longer producing, supporting, or developing for the X.

Because Motorola's development resources are probably very limited and they support such a great number of devices with such varying hardware, it's entirely reasonable to believe that the Droid X could reach EOL status by early-to-mid 2011, and we will no longer be receiving updates because the amount of revenue that will be generated by that work (new phone sales, for instance) is overshadowed exponentially by the cost and effort of doing it.

That said, Verizon's EOL date on that chart looks like a placeholder because all of their biggest devices are currently marked as being set to EOL on 3/31/2011, along with the Omnia and some other miscellaneous smartphones. They can't kill the entire lineup on the same day in one fell swoop.

I'm on the fence about Gingerbread, but in the event we get one I see us getting a Gingerbread OTA, a bugfix within 2 months of the push and then the X reaching the end of its development cycle, with its service life ending once Motorola can't push them off the shelves anymore. That said, with how android development is slowing down, Gingerbread would be all we need to have a really stable phone to last us a very long time :]
 
protocollie said:
No. EOL means 'End Of Life.' Releasing a new product is releasing a new product but in the tech world 'End Of Life' means it's no longer planned to be in an active development cycle, no teams are working on it, no more patches (except for CRITICAL security patches that are utter showstoppers) will be committed. 'End Of Life' means that Motorola is no longer producing, supporting, or developing for the X.
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I know what EOL means in the tech world and that's actually my point. They cannot be doing a true EOL because the warranty for the phones is longer than the EOL date. Even the first phones sold extend past this date.

They cannot be dropping support for the X, either hardware or technical, because customer warranties are still active.

This is not a true EOL like it is typically referred to in the tech world. When most tech companies refer to an EOL, it's a product that often has been out of active development for a while, all active warranties have expired, and the EOL marks its end of any type of support. This is an end of the active development and sales cycles, to the best of my estimation.
 
binary visions said:
I know what EOL means in the tech world and that's actually my point. They cannot be doing a true EOL because the warranty for the phones is longer than the EOL date. Even the first phones sold extend past this date.

They cannot be dropping support for the X, either hardware or technical, because customer warranties are still active.

This is not a true EOL like it is typically referred to in the tech world. When most tech companies refer to an EOL, it's a product that often has been out of active development for a while, all active warranties have expired, and the EOL marks its end of any type of support. This is an end of the active development and sales cycles, to the best of my estimation.
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Which is for all intents and purposes a hard EOL. If they're not updating software, they probably won't be producing any units, and the support will consist of refurbishing devices. Again, I think the entire date is suspect, it seems very strange to EOL 1/4 of their smartphone lineup on the same day, mixing some very old phones with some brand new ones.
 
protocollie said:
Which is for all intents and purposes a hard EOL. If they're not updating software, they probably won't be producing any units, and the support will consist of refurbishing devices. Again, I think the entire date is suspect, it seems very strange to EOL 1/4 of their smartphone lineup on the same day, mixing some very old phones with some brand new ones.
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Just speculation but maybe they're trying to reduce OS fragmentation?
 
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